A win!!!!!

Sometimes you actually have a win!

 Everyone knows I am trying to change the laws about 

Assistance dogs in Victoria.

It has been a very frustrating journey,

but at last there has been a break through.

My boy goes everywhere with me;

we walk, take the Moira van, or ride the suburban trains.

Trouble is, I have been breaking the law!

The only working dogs allowed on trains are -

guide dogs and dogs for people who are deaf.

Midnight has less rights than an ordinary mutt,

as for using a bus or tram, NO WAY!

I am not allowed  to even look sideways at a country train.

My argument has always been, 

how will he ever learn to travel on the long-haul trains

if I  can not use them?

The application form for the pass is 17 pages long

and you need to be a genious to fill it out,

apart from that, it excludes all privately trained dogs!!

An impossible situation.

BUT

I went to a meeting with the Department of transport 

last Wednesday, and before I could bring up all my gripes

about the crazy  application form, 

the woman said- the department had decided to simplify the form and make us responsible for our own dogs!!!!

I took her sample form, went to the doctor, took is photo,

filled out the form, Mary Vella [Yooralla] hand delivered 

the papers on Friday lunchtime.

Look what came in the post Monday morning---

Middi is the first dog to be registered with the new

Assistance Animal Pass.

I cant wait to catch the Vline train to the country.

This means equality and freedom for so many  people, 

not only wheelies,

and Middi and I are the first!!!!

Keep fighting for what you believe in!!